Study Law in Alaska

Victor B. Flatt
Victor B. Flatt is the A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Houston Law Center and has been a visitor professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He is a nationally recognized expert in environmental legal and policy matters and has done extensive media commentary on this issue. He is also a leader in the gay and lesbian community and a commentator on gay and lesbian legal issues. He earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in Chemistry and Mathematics at Vanderbilt University in 1985, where he was a Harold Stirling Vandrerbilt Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the analytical laboratory coordinator for the Student Environmental Health Project. He graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1988, where he was a John Henry Wigmore Scholar and Order of the Coif. After law school, Professor Flatt clerked for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked in private practice in complex environmental law in Seattle, Washington. Professor Flatt has been representing Senators Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Barbara Boxer, among others, in their challenge to new EPA Clean Air Act rules.

Susan McClellan
B.A. University of Washington 1967; M.Ed. University of Alaska/Anchorage 1983; J.D. with Honors University of Washington School of Law 1988. After her clerkship and before joining the faculty in 1992, Professor McClellan worked as an associate at Karr Tuttle Campbell, focusing on labor and employment law; and provided pro bono services for a local housing shelter. Since joining the faculty, she has served on the national Board of Directors for the Legal Writing Institute, has presented sessions at six biennial LWI summer conferences, has served as a writing advisor for a law firm, and has taught one semester in the law department at the University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland. Professor McClellan became the Director of the Externship Program at Seattle University School of Law in 2005.